Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday Challenge No.64

    Originally posted on willowdot21: This part of?Colleen Chesebro, the Fairy Whisperer’s Tuesday Tanka. I have long wanted to try a Haibun so I have written one below, it includes a Tanka so I think that is within the rules.? Not having tried this disapline before I hope it’s not too far from the bar. It…

  • Haibun 75

    Originally posted on Michael Rehling: the world is perfect at every moment coming home from a haiku meeting late at night. i am the only car on the road. not more than thirty miles from home i am traveling at exactly 55 miles per hour with farms on one side and a marsh on the…

  • Haibun: Ageless

    Originally posted on kanzen sakura: This is linked to Real Toads, Tuesday Platform. With total admiration in De Jackson’s (WhimsyGizmo) style of poetry. Ageless This poem is ageless – No wrinkles, no white hair, no unsteady gait. This poem dances on the shores of oceans, lakes, deserts. This poem sings on her backporch in the…

  • Daily Haiku: Dec. 27, 2017

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: from the window a distant car carries the weight of air by Robbie Coburn (Australia) Under The Basho, 2017 ?

  •  departing

    Originally posted on Project words: ? departing year all the moments we’ve shared ? ? ? ?

  • blowfish soup

    blowfish soup

    Originally posted on 日本文化の愛 Nipponbunka no ai: あら何ともなやきのふは過てふくと汁 ara nan to mo na ya kino wa sugite fukuto shiru Well, nothing has come of it! Yesterday went by on a diet Of blowfish soup! -Matsuo Basho ? Art by Shotei Hokuju, “Ebisu Preparing Fugu”

  • Auf wiedershen

    Auf wiedershen

    Originally posted on Haiku out of Africa: a cold starless night ~ hear our footsteps on the stones ~ as we say goodbye — © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa

  • ‘concrete jungle’ Haiga Receives Honors from World Haiku Association

    ‘concrete jungle’ © 2017 Jennifer Hambrick. All rights reserved. First published in the online exhibition of the World Haiku Association’s 159th Haiga Contest, 24 Dec. 2017. I am greatly honored that my haiga “concrete jungle” has been selected for the online exhibition in the World Haiku Association’s 159th Haiga Contest. Whether you live deep in the…